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1954 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

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Classification
  
Division I

Teams
  
8

Site
  
WVU Fieldhouse Morgantown, WV

Champions
  
George Washington (2nd title)

Winning coach
  
William Reinhart (1st title)

The 1954 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament took place from March 4–6, 1954 at the West Virginia Fieldhouse in Morgantown, West Virginia. The George Washington Colonials, led by head coach William Reinhart, won their second Southern Conference title and received the automatic berth to the 1954 NCAA Tournament.

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Format

The top eight finishers of the conference's ten members were eligible for the tournament. Teams were seeded based on conference winning percentage. The tournament used a preset bracket consisting of three rounds.

Bracket

* Overtime game

References

1954 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament Wikipedia